cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51193069
- Economy shrank by 1.8% in first two months
- Putin has asked officials for growth policies
- Communist leader warns economy risks stoking discontent
- Comments look aimed at voters before parliamentary vote
The veteran leader of Russia’s Communist Party has warned parliament that the country’s faltering economy risks stoking a 1917-style revolution and that the government needs to take urgent measures to correct its course.
Gennady Zyuganov, 81, issued his warning to a plenary session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, ahead of a parliamentary election due in September, according to a recording of his speech posted on the Duma’s official website.
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Zyuganov said a recent government meeting convened by Putin had been the gloomiest in a long time.
“If you (the government) do not urgently adopt financial, economic and other measures, by autumn a repeat of what happened in 1917 awaits us. We don’t have the right to repeat that. Let’s take some decisions.”
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That guy isn’t communist and completely pro-Putin.
The communist party where I live also refuses to vote for sanctions against Putin. They don’t care who runs the Kremlin, they’re just loyal to mother Russia. They’re not Russians either.
Very few bearing that label actually are.